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<blockquote data-quote="Bacon Bits" data-source="post: 8971491" data-attributes="member: 6777737"><p>Historically I've been a big fan, too. I did mention upthread that I'm currently playing Warhammer 40k Inquisitor.</p><p></p><p>It just feels overdone at the moment. I want something else. I'm tired of the consistent use of deconstruction to tell stories about how miserable everyone is.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Well, there's always been some dark fantasy. It just feels like it's really dominant right now. GoT was published in the 90s, but it didn't reach the height of it's popularity until the mid 2000s. The First Law trilogy took off then, too. Zombie apocalypses, Nolan's Batman franchise, The Hunger Games, whatever Zack "Batman kills" Snyder is filming, etc. The Last of Us was just made into a series so we're back in that rather miserable universe. Like something has to be going wrong when <em>The Witcher </em>almost feels like it's refreshingly optimistic.</p><p></p><p>While it's always been popular, there's a glut of dark fantasy and dystopian fiction at the moment. And, you know, I just lived through a pandemic. I've got more work and less time at work and at home. My mental and physical health are not great. My nation's politics are so broken that it feels unfixable. Civil rights feel poised for significant rollbacks. The future of D&D looks boring <em>and</em> overmonetized. AI looks like it will be just another horrible power grab by tech corps to make our lives explicitly worse and more expensive. There's massive inflation. On and on and on.</p><p></p><p>And still, all that comes out are more stories about how sad and depressing someone in a fantasy world is, or how dystopian the future will be.</p><p></p><p>Can I <em>please</em> get a <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤬" title="Face with symbols on mouth :face_with_symbols_over_mouth:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f92c.png" data-shortname=":face_with_symbols_over_mouth:" /> fairy tale ending sometimes? Maybe a story where, I don't know, nobody dies horribly?</p><p></p><p>I'm convinced this is why the D&D movie might be doing as well as it is. It's not a story about how terrible life has become.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bacon Bits, post: 8971491, member: 6777737"] Historically I've been a big fan, too. I did mention upthread that I'm currently playing Warhammer 40k Inquisitor. It just feels overdone at the moment. I want something else. I'm tired of the consistent use of deconstruction to tell stories about how miserable everyone is. Well, there's always been some dark fantasy. It just feels like it's really dominant right now. GoT was published in the 90s, but it didn't reach the height of it's popularity until the mid 2000s. The First Law trilogy took off then, too. Zombie apocalypses, Nolan's Batman franchise, The Hunger Games, whatever Zack "Batman kills" Snyder is filming, etc. The Last of Us was just made into a series so we're back in that rather miserable universe. Like something has to be going wrong when [I]The Witcher [/I]almost feels like it's refreshingly optimistic. While it's always been popular, there's a glut of dark fantasy and dystopian fiction at the moment. And, you know, I just lived through a pandemic. I've got more work and less time at work and at home. My mental and physical health are not great. My nation's politics are so broken that it feels unfixable. Civil rights feel poised for significant rollbacks. The future of D&D looks boring [I]and[/I] overmonetized. AI looks like it will be just another horrible power grab by tech corps to make our lives explicitly worse and more expensive. There's massive inflation. On and on and on. And still, all that comes out are more stories about how sad and depressing someone in a fantasy world is, or how dystopian the future will be. Can I [I]please[/I] get a 🤬 fairy tale ending sometimes? Maybe a story where, I don't know, nobody dies horribly? I'm convinced this is why the D&D movie might be doing as well as it is. It's not a story about how terrible life has become. [/QUOTE]
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